Facebook is getting rid of its Trending Topics feature, according to a blog post the social network published Friday. The Trending sidebar, located on the right-hand side on desktop, ...

The Trending box will be removed next week. Facebook says it was active in five countries and accounted for “less than 1.5 percent of clicks to news publishers on average.” ...

Facebook is shutting down its trending topics section, a feature that was intended to highlight interesting conversations on the platform but ended up creating political headaches for the company.

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook removed human editing from its Trending news topics feature Friday, part of the fallout from charges of anti-conservative political bias leveled at the social networking ...

However, Trending’s reliance on clicks and re-shares in this case makes Facebook’s once-helpful news module far less useful for everyone. Additional reporting by Sarah Perez. Topics ...

Facebook is rolling out a "Trending News" section on mobile that includes its own link in the app's main navigation. This follows the company's earlier ...

The update comes days after accusations surfaced online that the highly shared Women's March didn't show as trending on Facebook. The social site has been trying to curb fake news and filter bubbles.

Trending Topics, the feature at the center of all this, is fairly unimportant in the context of Facebook. “Trending Topics” itself — written in an off-putting alien tongue, containing three ...

Facebook could be forced back to the drawing board in order to fix its newly automated Trending topics section after its algorithm suffered two consecutive blunders.. Last week, the social network ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is changing its Trending Topics that highlights the most popular news on the giant social network to fight the incursion of fake news. Among the changes: Everyone will ...

Internal Facebook guidelines reveal how the social network relies on its editors' news judgment, on top of its algorithms, to determine the content of its influential "Trending Topics" section ...

Facebook’s trending topics don’t shift as much as Twitter’s do, which can change by the minute. Facebook’s advantage over Twitter is the ability to create a more personal trending section.